L.A. Times - News — No Roger Waters or Prince this year. Instead, the festival got its star wattage from acts that came of age in the aughts.As the U.K. folk-revival quartet Mumford & Sons, all of whom are in their early 20s, stared out on the 70,000 people or so gather... more info

Guardian Music — Singer returns to Worth Farm as festival organisers announce star-studded bill including Beyoncé, Cee Lo Green and ElbowRead the full Glastonbury 2011 lineupThe first time he played the world's biggest and best-loved music festival in 1984, the set ... more info

Altsounds — A bustling port on the north-east coast of Queensland, home to what seems like half the Australian army, Townville hardly seems like the most fertile ground for a slice of luminous musical beauty. But it's where the seven-strong collective known a... more info

Guardian Music — YouTube is already fundamental to online music, but now it's expanding its official content and moving into live streamingAt last year's BT Digital Music Awards, YouTube beat Spotify, Last.fm, MySpace, SoundCloud and BBC 6 Music to the publicly-voted... more info

Guardian Music — Coachella not only benefits from a picturesque location, perfect climate and plum position on the calendar, it can also embellish your cyber identity. What's not to like?Why do people make such a big deal about Coachella now?Julianna YoungOver the pa... more info

Altsounds — Good things come in threes as the magnificent Iron & Wine join Fleet Foxes and Explosions In The Sky as the third main stage headliner for Green Man 2011! Backed by a superb live band, acclaimed Texas-based singer songwriter Sam Beam will bring the ... more info

VH1 Blog — Remember that Mumford & Sons VH1 Unplugged taping we told you about? Well, it’s only two days away! In addition to a number of their own songs, the band will, thanks to Starburst, perform a “Contradictions Track”—a cover song that you wouldn�... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Mumford & Sons and Metallica collaborated on 'See My Friends.'"The wonderful thing about making records is something comes out you never expected," explains Ray Davies, who knows of what he speaks. In nearly five deca... more info

VH1 Blog — Listening to Taylor Swift’s catalog is, as she has admitted on numerous occasions, akin to reading her diary. Considering her stance as a confessional songwriter and performer, we feel inclined to believe that her decision to cover “White Blank P... more info

Guardian Music — Unlikely to ever appear in a giant egg, Adele's everyday universality has let her talent translate into phenomenal salesLast week Adele's second album, 21, sold 257,000 copies in the UK, a sales figure that would look incredible as an opening sales w... more info